SUSE: 2018:0040-1 Important Kernel Security Update with Critical Fixes
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January 8, 2018
An update that solves 32 vulnerabilities and has 7 fixes is now available.
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory (bnc#1068032). - CVE-2017-5753: Local attackers on systems with modern CPUs featuring deep instruction pipelining could use attacker controllable speculative execution over code patterns in the Linux Kernel to leak content from otherwise not readable memory in the same address space, allowing retrieval of passwords, cryptographic keys and other secrets. This problem is mitigated by adding speculative fencing on affected code paths throughout the Linux kernel. - CVE-2017-5715: Local attackers on systems with modern CPUs featuring
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#1010175 #1034862 #1045327 #1050231 #1052593
#1056982 #1057179 #1057389 #1058524 #1062520
#1063544 #1063667 #1066295 #1066472 #1066569
#1066573 #1066606 #1066618 #1066625 #1066650
#1066671 #1066693 #1066700 #1066705 #1067085
#1068032 #1068671 #1069702 #1069708 #1070771
#1071074 #1071470 #1071695 #1072561 #1072876
#1073792 #1073874 #1074033 #999245
Cross- CVE-2017-1000251 CVE-2017-11600 CVE-2017-13080
CVE-2017-13167 CVE-2017-14106 CVE-2017-14140
CVE-2017-14340 CVE-2017-15102 CVE-2017-15115
CVE-2017-15265 CVE-2017-15274 CVE-2017-15868
CVE-2017-16525 CVE-2017-16527 CVE-2017-16529
CVE-2017-16531 CVE-2017-16534 CVE-2017-16535
CVE-2017-16536 CVE-2017-16537 CVE-2017-16538
CVE-2017-16649 CVE-2017-16939 CVE-2017-...
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:0040-1
Rating: important
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